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Friday, January 2, 2015

BRO to be brought fully under Defence Ministry: Manohar Parrikar

Dear veterans,first - rEAD THE 2.12.09 WRITTEN REPLY IN rs BY THE rm, mR.AK ANTONY.SECOND : GO THRO THE 20-10-11 ORDER OR nhai (CLICK BELOW).CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NHAI ORDER BY DOUBLING THE LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS TO GREF PERSONNEl under border roads orgAND THIRD- READ TODAY'S STATEMENT OF THE RM ON THE ISSUE.nOTICED? What IS THAT? THE LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS APPLICABLE TO Other ranks is extended to gref personnel, as per leave rules of cg employees 1972.blatant voilation of all norms. this can happen only with our babus..=================================================FRIDAY, JANUARY 2,
2015

New Delhi: Border Road Organisation (BRO) will be brought fully
under the Defence Ministry and non-sensitive roads in border areas will be
handed over to theNationalHighways Authority of India, said Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar.

The BRO is presently under both road transport and defence
ministries. While the former allocates funds, the latter has executive control. In an interaction with journalists on Tuesday night, Parrikar said
dual control has led to a sad state of affairs in the organisation. "The BRO will be brought fully under the Defence Ministry.
There was lot of confusion because it was under two masters," he said. "By the next budget it will be under Defence Ministry
completely," he said.

The minister added that
nearly 3,000 km of roads will be transferred to NHAI in the areas which are not
sensitive.

On the question of a rail link along India-China border, he said
he will soon hold meetings with Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu. On China's objections to infrastructure development in the border
areas, Parrikar dismissed them. "What we do on our side of the border is
not their business," he said.

=================================================================================== Discrimination
between GREF and army personnel

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RAJYA SABHA/ 02 DEC 09

General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) engineers are not governed by Army Act
and Rules for all purposes. Certain provisions of Army Act 1950 and Army
Rules 1954 have been made applicable to GREF personnel for disciplinary
purposes.

GREF personnel are governed by Central Civil Service Rules and their pay and
allowance are regulated pursuant to these rules at par with other Central
Government employees. However, GREF personnel are entitled to free ration,
free clothing, single living accommodation, CSD canteen facilities, free
remittance of money which otherwise are not entitled to other civilian
employees of the Central Government. Benefits recommended by Central Pay
Commissions have been extended to GREF personnel.

GREF personnel and Army are provided facilities like single living
accommodation HRA, free clothing, free ration and CSD. However, Army
personnel are entitled to Military Service Pay, Field Area Allowance, Counter
Insurgency Operation Allowance when they are posted to Army Units,
Instructional Allowance, Compensation in lieu of quarter, medical leave/sick
leave, transport from unit line to rail head on leave, free conveyance when
proceeding on medical leave, school bus facility, concession vouchers to
which GREF personnel are not entitled. On the other hand, GREF personnel are
entitled to Special Duty Allowance in northeast & Leh – Ladakh Region,
one additional LTC for one side journey and certain northeast concessions to
which Army personnel are not entitled.

There is a lot of difference between GREF personnel and Army with regard to
entitlement of leave as Army gets 60 days of annual leave and 30 days of CL
whereas GREF personnel get 30 days of EL, 20 days of HPL and 12 days of CL.
The reasons for this discrimination is that the service conditions of both
the services are different. The parameters of enrolment, recruitment and
training are entirely different for these two streams. Personnel of GREF are
governed under CCS (leave) Rules whereas Army personnel are covered under
separate set of rules and hence the difference.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written
reply to Shri Nandamuri Harikrishna and Shri MV Mysura Reddy in Rajya Sabha
today.

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